Marketed for the first time in February 1998, when it was
presented in havana during the annual gala in which
the “Hombre Habano del A??Awards are bestowed,
it was already known to connoisseurs all aver the world,
since a variation of it, but with a 38 ring gauge,
had been used since 1969 as a Diplomatic present from the
Government of the republic of Cuba.